I can’t help but notice that the overwhelming number of these atrocities are committed by live-in “boyfriends” who have not demonstrated any particular real commitment to the women who allow them into their lives.
The pathological avoidance of any real commitment is leading to relationships in which there is no real bond between the adults (particularly the men) and the children in the house. So these bums find it easy to batter children for whom they have no real love or regard.
Yet, more and more, women and men just drift in and out of the lives of people who show no desire to make any meaningful attachments.
It is leading to tragedy after tragedy.
My son’s first friend had a mother who lived with a series of shiftless men. One of them beat the boy’s toddler brother into a permanent coma. I suspect he is out of prison now. But the boy, if he is still alive, is locked in the prison of his battered brain for the rest of his life.

I live in the town you are speaking of. My heart broke when I read it in the paper that she was barely hanging on. I said if she would die not only should the boyfriend be charged but the mother should be charged as well. This was not the first time that poor baby (GOD’S CHILD) had to endure beatings at the hands of the monster. The one doing the beatings, the boyfriend but the so called mother. Friends, family but somebody should have intervened. As they say it takes a town to raise a child. Now all these people are coming forward and saying that this happened many times. And with the coronors report she had old injuries. Where was these people before now. Now a baby is dead from everybody turning there heads and acting like it wasn’t happening.

And it’s not like we don’t have agencies who will handle the intervention. This is the job of social services. If they know something is happening, it’s their duty to tell someone so the child can get help. (Though, social services doesn’t even act in a number of these cases as the link demonstrates.)

Does this state have a death penalty? It applies here.

Maybe the guy was just following James (Let’s Focus on YOUR Family) Dobson’s advice to beat the child into submission. Seems not a few people think it’s ‘Biblical’.
My condolences on the loss.

I’ve never heard Dobson say that you should beat your kid with a video controller. There is a difference in abusing a child and punishing them and before you have children, I hope you realize that.

I’ve never heard Dobson say that you should beat your kid with a video controller.
And I never heard Jesus say to oppress gay people – but you folks sure do love to misinterpret junk your leaders say and use it as an excuse to do dumb things.

And how are Christians oppressing gay people?

Maybe we can argue over the definition of the word “oppress” like you people like to argue about the definition of the word “marriage.”
One word (actually an acronym): ENDA. If Christians don’t want to oppress gay people, why are they so vehement about opposing ENDA?

Yeah, I thought couldn’t come up with an example because we don’t oppress gays at all. I’ll take your response as backing down from your over the top rhetoric.
And why don’t we support ENDA? Because we aren’t as stupid as we look. It would be very easy for us to get in trouble for not having a gay pastor or staff member then wouldn’t it? It’s we who don’t want to be oppressed because we take Romans 1 seriously.

You say you don’t oppress gay people, yet you stand with those who refuse to support equal employment for gay people
“Separate but Equal” is oppression, Sister.

“yet you stand with those who refuse to support equal employment for gay people”
Oh, horsehockey. Gay people HAVE equal employment. It’s not like we can tell you’re gay be looking at you. The only reason it would even come up is if you bizzarely started talking about your sexual preferences in a job interview.

this article is so sad and messed up how can anyone do this to a kid?